Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] rmap: parisc __flush_dcache_page
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:51, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> that path can take as long as timeslice to run, not taking interrupts
> for a whole scheduler timeslice is pretty bad.

OK, now I'm confused.  Where's the whole timeslice bit coming from? the
parisc flush_dcache_code better not take a timeslice to execute
otherwise we're in very serious performance trouble.

Does it take as long as a timeslice to do mmap[_shared] list insertion?

James


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